US Open History for Day 6

Written by: Staff on 6th September 2011

US Open History for Day 6

Fans depart Arthur Ashe Stadium after all matches were cancelled due to rain on the ninth day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 06 September 2011. The US Open runs through 11 September 2011. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT |

1920 – Bill Tilden wins the first of seven U.S. men’s singles crowns, defeating Bill Johnston, 6-1, 1-6, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3, at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y.

1941 – Bobby Riggs wins his second U.S. men’s singles title, defeating Francis Kovacs in the final.

1975 – Chris Evert defeats Evonne Goolagong, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, to win her first US Open singles title. Manuel Orantes performs one of the great comebacks in tennis history, saving five match points to defeat Guillermo Vilas, 4-6, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4, after trailing two-sets-to-love and 0-5 in the fourth set.

1980 – John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors lock horns in perhaps their greatest US Open match, with McEnroe edging Connors, 6-4, 5-7, 0-6, 6-3, 7-6(3), in the men’s singles semifinals.

1986 – Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf complete one of the great US Open women’s semifinal matches as Navratilova comes back from three match points down to claim a 6-1, 6-7, 7-6 semifinal victory over the 17-year-old West German. Navratilova led the match, 4-1, in the first set before the match was delayed a day due to rain, and completed the emotional victory in two hours and 19 minutes.

1991 – In a US Open women’s singles semifinal between two teens, 17-year-old Monica Seles defeats 15- year-old Jennifer Capriati, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(3), to reach her first US Open women’s singles final.

1998 – Patty Schnyder defeats Steffi Graf, 6-3, 6-4, in the round of 16 in what becomes Graf’s final match at the US Open. Graf announces her retirement 11 months later, on August 13, 1999.

2000 – At 1:22 a.m., Todd Martin completes an incredible two-sets-to-love comeback to defeat former world No. 1 Carlos Moya of Spain, 6-7(3), 6-7(7), 6-1, 7-6(6), 6-2, in the fourth round of men’s singles. Martin saves a match point at 6-5 in the fourth-set tie-break to win in four hours and 17 minutes. Following the match, Martin laps the court and exchanges high fives with the fans.

2003 – Twenty-two hours after walking off the court following a dramatic semifinal win over Jennifer Capriati, Justine Henin-Hardenne becomes the first Belgian to claim the US Open title, defeating countrywoman Kim Cljisters, 7-5, 6-1, in the women’s final. Earlier, in the wee hours of the morning, Henin-Hardenne finally defeats Capriati, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(4), in a women’s semifinal that concludes at 12:27 a.m. The Capriati-Henin-Hardenne match lasts three hours and three minutes, with Capriati serving for the match in both the second and third sets and getting within two points of winning the match 11 times. Capriati and Henin-Hardenne each win 127 points in the match.

2008 – Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hanna wreak havoc with Super Saturday. Due to the inclement weather, the men’s singles semifinal between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic starts an hour early, and the other semifinal between Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray is moved to Louis Armstrong Stadium. Federer completes his victory in four sets, but Murray and Nadal are halted in the third set. The heavy rains postpone the women’s singles final to Sunday and push the men’s singles final back to Monday for the first time since 1987. In order to complete the tournament on schedule, the boys’ and girls’ semifinal matches are moved to Sound Shore Indoor Tennis Club in Port Chester, N.Y.

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